#QIPCO Champion Stakes

Newsboy fancies Baaeed to take star billing at Ascot as the unbeaten four-year-old bids to bow out in the Champion Stakes with an 11th straight win Ascot hosts the six-race Qipco Champions Day meeting on Saturday October 15 BAAEED tops the bill as a glittering cast list assembles for the £4million QIPCO British Champions Day seasonal finale at…

Breeders' Cup Classic hero Knicks Go has been named the Longines World's Best Racehorse at an online ceremony hosted from the National Racing Museum in Newmarket. The International Federation of Horseracing Authority's panel of handicappers awarded Knicks Go an end-of-season rating of 129, 2lb clear of a three-way tie featuring European Horse of…

Baaeed: will make his final racecourse appearance in either the Arc or Champion Stakes Angus Gold says he would personally love nothing more than for Baaeed to round off his career in the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, an event he described as "the greatest race in the world". But Shadwell's long-serving racing manager and wise counsel to the…

Sodashi, shown winning the Sapporo Kinen in her last start Aug. 22, returns in Sunday's Grade 1 Shuka Sho at Hanshin Racecourse. Photo courtesy of Japan Racing Association Oct. 15 (UPI) -- As American horse racing enters its pre-Breeders' Cup "calm before the storm" this weekend, the international contingent ably plugs the gap with the world's…

Richard Kingscote: gets the plum ride back on board Great Ambassador in the Ayr Gold Cup Richard Kingscote will be reunited with Great Ambassador in the Ayr Gold Cup (3.40) after the ante-post favourite was confirmed in a full field of 25 runners for Saturday's feature race. The son of Exceed And Excel has been in flying form since moving to Ed…

Mr. Misunderstood wins Saturday's Commonwealth Turf at Churchill Downs, headed for bigger things in the year to come. Photo courtesy of Churchill Downs A spate of major weekend races around the world fueled hopes for the coming season, even as this year's championships are still being debated. In Australia, Redzel silenced any lingering doubts…

Baaeed has "a strong chance" of ending his career in the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp in October, trainer William Haggas said on Sunday. Provided the ground is suitable, the unbeaten colt looks set to be tested for the first time over a mile and a half in Europe's most prestigious race. Speculation has been rife over targets for…

Appleby, 47, a retained trainer for Godolphin at Moulton Paddocks in Newmarket, fought off sustained challenges from John & Thady Gosden and William Haggas to keep hold of the Trainers' title. It completes a clean sweep of the Jockeys', Trainers' and Owners' Championships for Godolphin in 2022, with the organisation winning the Owners' title and…

William Buick with Adayar, a definite starter in Saturday's Group 1 Qipco Champion Stakes Adayar will add spice to Champions Day at Ascot on Saturday after trainer Charlie Appleby confirmed on Thursday morning that the Derby and King George winner would be a definite starter in the Group 1 Qipco Champion Stakes. The son of Frankel has come out of…

The final step proved one too many for Baaeed as his unbeaten record and sheen of greatness were undone at odds of 1-4 as Bay Bridge put forward his own claim to excellence in winning the Qipco Champion Stakes. This farewell leg of Baaeed's tour as Frankel's greatest tribute act was hoped to be the biggest, parting, compliment to the great horse,…

BAAEED is the star attraction on British Champions Day at Ascot on Saturday afternoon and he can end on a high with victory in the Group One QIPCO Champion Stakes (British Champions Middle Distance) (4pm). But at cramped odds he is not really a betting proposition but his Willie Haggas' stable-mate SEA LA ROSA certainly is in the Group One QIPCO…

It's fair to say the Qipco Champion Stakes didn't go to script. Baaeed, head and shoulders above his rivals on form and looking to bow out with his unbeaten record intact, sent off at 4/1-on, could manage only fourth placing, just seeming to run flat. In a tactical race, the turn of foot Baaeed had shown through his career was lacking when he was…

The New Bay colt - who this time last year was winning a handicap at York off a mark of 105 - looked a star in the making himself when running out a most impressive winner of the Brigadier Gerard Stakes at Sandown in May. He went from there to the Prince of Wales's Stakes, finishing second to State Of Rest, before picking up a knock when the beaten…

About 72 miles of Kentucky bluegrass separate Lexington's limestone looker of a racetrack, Keeneland, from horse racing's best-known venue, Churchill Downs. But the two tracks are a world removed atmospherically. Like Louisville, the city in which it lies, Churchill is bigger and bawdier, with more mass appeal. But for more refined fans of the…

Dubai Honour (striped cap) wins the Prix Dollar at Longchamp last weekend: connections have now decided to supplement him for the Champion Stakes Connections of the progressive Dubai Honour are set to pay £75000 to add the recent Prix Dollar winner to the field for the Group 1 Qipco Champion Stakes at Ascot next Saturday. However, last year's…

For details of advised bookmakers and each-way terms, visit our transparent Sea Of Class seemingly has everything going for her five weeks away from the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. William Haggas' filly oozes quality, she's fast, she stays, and she's on a steep upward curve having thrashed Coronet to claim her second Group One victory in the…

Every year, the Breeders' Cup attracts a strong contingent of international raiders to challenge North America's best horses in a series of lucrative races. Among the 14 Breeders' Cup events, none attract a stronger international presence on a year-to-year basis than the $4 million, Grade 1 Longines Breeders' Cup Turf. Held over 1 ½ miles, the Turf…

Who will rise to the challenge at Ascot on Saturday? Andy Stephens shares his best bets and suggests potentially underestimated runners to keep in mind. 1.25 Qipco British Champions Long Distance Cup (Group 2) THE TIP: ELDAR ELDAROV at a general 5-2 No three-year-old has won this race since it was first run in 2011 but that masks the fact that…

THE £4 million Flat season finale is finally here. Ascot hosts a star-studded six-race card on QIPCO British Champions Day, with four mouth watering Group 1s to get stuck into. The meeting was launched in 2011 and has gone from strength to strength, and this year it will be the scene for Baaeed's career swansong. The unbeaten four-year-old will be…

Baaeed and Adayar are set to clash in the Qipco Champion Stakes at Ascot on Saturday All eyes are drawn to an epic Qipco British Champions Day clash at Ascot on Saturday - Baaeed v Adayar. The unbeaten machine that is Baaeed goes up against arguably his toughest rival in the Qipco Champion Stakes (4.00), in which he bids to cap his sparkling career…

Ahead of Baaeed's final run in the Qipco Champion Stakes at Ascot on Saturday, the former champion jockey talks Jon Lees through the six G1 victories that catapulted the superstar colt to world #1 status. GB: Ten out of ten, still unbeaten and not serious challenged for a 12-month period. That's probably why Baaeed is rated world #1 on turf…

Last season's Cambridgeshire runner-up did not make his seasonal debut until July, but has appeared intent on making up for lost time - winning each of his three starts. A lucrative comeback success in the John Smith's Cup at York was followed by an impressive display in the Rose of Lancaster Stakes at Haydock - and he completed his hat-trick with…

Sept. 30 (UPI) -- The Qatar Prix de l' Arc de Triomphe is the race of the year in Europe -- a 1 1/2-mile test that normally draws the best of what the locals call middle-distance runners. A couple of good ones are missing from Sunday's running, but there's plenty of intrigue left. And that's just the tip of the iceberg on a busy autumn weekend…

Better than this time last year when he was an unconsidered and largely unknown 72/1 outsider. The son of Adlerflug had just won a Group One at Baden-Baden, but a near three-length defeat to Alpinista at Hoppergarten seemed to put his claims against the cream of Britain and Ireland into perspective, only for him to wear down the form horses;…

GODOLPHIN have decided to skip the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe with Adayar in favour of a blockbuster clash at Ascot with Baaeed. The four-year-old will head to Champions Day on October 15 for the mouthwatering head-to-head after ground conditions turned against him in Paris. Longchamp racecourse has been battered with rain in recent days, with the…

The four-year-old, who is unbeaten in a ten-race career, will retire to stud after he contests the £1.3 million race over 1m2f, ten years after Frankel bowed out with victory in the 2012 QIPCO Champion Stakes with a record of 14 wins out of 14. After today's scratching stage for the QIPCO Champion Stakes, the Shadwell Estate Company-owned Baaeed is…

Quinn, whose Malton stable has won over £1 million this year thanks to the exploits of triple Group 1-winner Highfield Princess, has entered Safe Voyage and the improving Empirestateofmind in the 1m contest. Safe Voyage signalled he was returning to form when overcoming a bad draw to finish half a length second in a valuable handicap at…

Trained by William Haggas and ridden by Jim Crowley for owners Shadwell Estate, the 2/5 favourite emulated his sire Sea The Stars with victory in the day-one feature of the Sky Bet Ebor Festival. Ryan Moore took the field along at a strong gallop aboard High Definition but he was a spent force soon after turning into the famous home…

Matt Brocklebank: Not wanting to lose may be stretching it a little but when you're dealing with such an important stallion prospect - at such a massive time for the whole Shadwell operation - picking your battles becomes absolutely paramount. The clamour was inevitable after York but Haggas has had 10 furlongs in mind all along and if he was…

UNBEATEN superstar Baaeed will NOT run in the Arc and instead will end his career at Ascot next month. Title chasing trainer William Haggas has opted to swerve the end of season showpiece in France for a shot at the Champion Stakes. Baaeed, who has won all ten of his races, was the 9-4 favourite for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. He would have…

A TOP bookie has slated William Haggas for not running Baaeed in the £2.6million Arc de Triomphe. Fans had been licking their lips at the prospect of Europe's - and possibly the world's - best horse running his final race in Paris on October 2. After blitzing a stellar field on his first try over further than a mile in the Juddmonte at York, hopes…

Charlie Appleby's Derby and King George winner from last year hadn't been seen in a race since last year's Qipco Champion Stakes at Ascot but he showed no signs of rust in the three-runner contest. Entitled to win easily if anywhere near the level of form he showed at his best as a three-year-old, he loomed up alongside the 102-rated Masekela in…